Preserving the Jewel

INSIDE MYSELF

2011-01-16T10:11:00.000-08:00

Mixed emotions lodged deep within,
Open up and let me in.

Swimming through year of pain,
Nothing to lose, a life to gain.

Roll away the stones, and let it out,
The final battle, to win the bout.

Listen, listen, what do you hear,
Open your ears and eyes, discarding all fear.

Deal with emotions, stand your ground,
Lies and deceit appear, but truth will abound.

At the end of this journey, if nothing else,
Leave all doors open and search yourself.

Life Cycles

2011-01-16T09:44:00.000-08:00

Are you familiar with this?

Latisha and I were talking about old times. We wondered what our old friend Lisa was up to and begin talking about her situation. Lisa always had "man problems." Although she dated one man (who was married)for several years, she had others that seemed to be the "Joe Blow" type. All of her children were by her married partner. After years of ups and downs with her married partner, the relationship finally ended; sadly, he did not leave his wife to marry her.

Her new found love was everything but love. It came with abuse, neglect, isolation and fear. She married this man. Of course we all flipped out and most of us were not invited to the wedding.

Life Cycles

Her daughter had her first child at 17. In the next 3 years she had two more children. He boyfriend was abusive, neglectful and she was often in isolation from her friends and family. The last we heard of this family is Lisa had the children and her daughter moved in off and on as a result of bad relationships.

In many cities there are programs to assist women in changing negative life cycles. Self-help is a dime a dozen these days. Opportunity knocks loud and clear. What will it take for our communities to rehabilitate our young women?

Burned Out On New Year Resolutions

2011-01-08T08:51:00.000-08:00

Most of the time we come up with our new year resolutions when talking to friends and loved ones. Usually resolutions are made up of what we did wrong in the previous year or just what we did not do that we should have done.

The definition of resolution is an answer or judgement to something that needs to be resolved. The word resolve means to make up ones mind to find a solution to a problem. So, do we do it just for fun or do we really want to better ourselves, achieve our goals and make lifestyle changes? That's the hard part. Doing it for fun is easier.

WHERE HAS THIS LIFE GONE

Where has this life gone?
Down old trodden streets with cracks and children rhymes;
Step on the crack, break yo mommas back.
Plum trees and grapevines and the boys next door.
Where has this life gone?
To parties and clubs and street dances.
Smoke some weed, drink some beer; Hangin out where yo momma told you not to go.
Where has this life gone?
Well, to learn the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice.
You have you cherry taken from the garden
And from there on you search for the forbidden pleasures of sex.
Where has this life gone?
Into womanhood, discoveries of things you care not to experience
And pleasures to ease the pain.
Every emotion touched and parts of you
Live and die over and over again.
This is life, my life, your life.
And no matter what road you choose to stay on,
You will know where your life has gone.

2009-09-02T20:17:00.001-07:00

PRESERVING THE JEWEL WITHIN

There is a jewel that is far better than diamonds; it can out sell silver and gold. Yet every day it is overlooked, misused, abused, and most of the time it is given away free. That right, free! Some people choose to just take it, without the consent of the owner.

There are some owners of this jewel that choose to exploit it and use it to gain whatever they think it can get them; a man, the rent, a car, other jewels and anything that will put them in the lime light of someone else’s life.

What is this Jewel; it’s the “Vagina”!!!!!! Better known as “Pussy”, but we will call it "The Jewel".

Yes “The Jewel” is the number one commodity in America. Put it on the stock market and in 24 hours the NYSE will be at an all time high. It could very well put the dollar at the top of the currency rate. That’s not all. I could think of a million things we could use “The Jewel” for to better our economy.

Unfortunately, that is not what “The Jewel” is for. Ladies, it is perhaps the most precious part of your body. It is your “Jewel Within”. If you possessed other commodities such as silver, gold, diamonds, rubies, and emerald, would you give them away so easily? It does not take long for you to figure it out. Sex sells and without the “Jewel Within”, sales would be at an all time low. Just think what would happen if we took it off the market, or at least, made it harder to get. Women would rule!!!

So ladies, Preserve The Jewel Within and Rule!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guarding the Heart

2009-03-03T12:50:00.000-08:00

First, let's take a look at what the heart of man is. There are three parts of the soul; the conscious mind, the preconscious and the subconscious mind. The conscious mind is the part that is aware of what is happening at the present time.The preconscious mind is aware of the surrounding conditions as the conscious mind operates. Your memory is in your preconscious mind. It memorizes everything from the environment around you (from you 5 senses). It stores and recalls details any time just like a computer. The subconscious mind is the heart of man. and is the center of your intelligence, emotions and will. The conscious mind receives information and passes it to the preconscious mind where it is stored in the memory. All the data that has been processed (the intelligence) is passed into the subconscious mind (the heart of man). When the same information is received over and over again, the heart believes it and develops confidence in it.

When children see adults repeat the same behaviors over and over again they process it as the way to behave. It's like history repeating itself. This is one of the reasons why children that are molested become molesters. This could very well be the reason why our daughters think its okay to sleep with anybody; they are repeating history. Is Chris Brown repeating history?

The subconscious mind or "the heart of man" also known as our psyche must be reversed from all the negative garbage that has been so carelessly imported in our children. How do we reverse it? How do we tell our children we did not do a good job of guarding their hearts?

Getting To The Root of It

2008-11-06T05:34:00.000-08:00

When someones heart is broken, you can see the brokenness within them. Their mind and thoughts change. The center of their being is interrupted and then a pretender appears.

Think of a tree. When the roots of a tree are damaged, you can't see the roots, but you can look at the tree and see there is something wrong. If not fixed properly, the tree begins to bear bad fruit. As humans, we tend to look at what we see and try to fix the problem; but if you don't fix the root, you can't fix the fruit. A friend of mine discovered at the age of 48 she suffered from the seed of rejection. What appeared on the out side was bad relationships, constantly moving, not being able to connect and always in some kind of conflict with people.

The healing process can be a long road. Getting to the root of a problem can be complex. Before you can find the root of the problem, you must examine the bad fruit. Let's look at the bad fruit of rejection: depression, self-pity, lack of self confidence, negativism, being judgmental and controlling, anger and hostility, and choosing unsafe relationships. If a person has several of these qualities, we can see that they may suffer from the root of rejection.

Now, imagine a child with a broken heart. They begin to bear bad fruit and are labeled a bad child or a problem child. All their life people continue to deal with the bad fruit, and not the bad root. When they become adults they continue to pass on the bad root through the bad fruit. Why? Because hurt people, hurt those around them with their bad fruit. A bad seed sown in a child's life produces contaminated roots. And contaminated roots have infected neighborhoods, schools, churches and the core of our dwelling. . . the home.